On Sam, 2003-02-01 at 22:38, Pawel Salek wrote: > > I have a problem to report. When playing wolfenstein (RTCW, exactly) on > ATi powered 8500LE card with XFree86-4.2.99.4-20030129.1 (I believe > this is the current CVS, as packaged current in RH's rawhide), game > hangs for a second when entering new rooms. Also, starting a new level > takes unusually long time. These problems did not exist when I used > dri.sf.net snapshots in August-September 2002. My first guess here is > something wrong either with card memory management or with the texture > upload. The delays remain even after changing the quality settings.
If this problem is indeed related to texture management, it's probably too late to attack it for XFree86 4.3.0, but the DRI texmem branch might help. > FWIW, mode switching (geometry and texture detail) work only if the > Xserver is started with the same resolution as used later by the game > (i.e. if the game uses 800x600, XF86Config should contain only Mode > "800x600"). This may RTCW bug, though. No, the fix for this was only merged to XFree86 CVS on the 30th. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
